Penciled on verso: Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf Cheyenne

This is a most distinguished portrait of Laban Little Wolf. Sharp's comments in the Gilcrease Foundation's catalogue of his 1949 retrospective mistakenly refers to this as Laban's uncle who Sharp painted in 1899 but who had died by 1905.

This may be the version of Little Wolf that Sharp entered in the 12th annual exhibition of American art at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1905 and then sent to his New York exhibition in 1906 at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries.

Chief Little Wolf - Cheyenne

Alternate Title:

Little Wolf, Cheyenne

Record ID: 449

Date: 1905

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 14 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. 1905

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.481

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Brooklyn, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.

Chief Little Wolf - Cheyenne

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